Example sentences of "way [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , in Chapter 8 we consider some topics on the border between architecture and implementation ; dealing with faults in the hardware of the computer , ways of speeding up the processor , and the interface between computer and operator . |
| 2 | Guidance on ways of speeding up the planning inquiry system which supersedes the previous rules contained in Statutory Instrument 1974/420 . |
| 3 | If it has no effect , members will be consulted again on ways of stepping up the action . |
| 4 | The General Medical Council is looking at ways of tightening up the rules to stop bogus doctors working and European laws will help . ’ |
| 5 | When a choreographer creates a ballet based on ancient Greek or Roman myth and legend , or on medieval legends and the fairy tales derived from them , he can find inspiration for ways of acting out the story or theme by reading the works of authors such as Homer and Plato . |
| 6 | To most animals , the clarity of each image is at least as important as the number per second , and many have found ways of sharpening up the picture . |
| 7 | As concern over state expenditure mounted , governments have looked for ways of cutting back the volume of support for the railways . |
| 8 | But there are two ways of blowing up a balloon . |
| 9 | By Sept. 30 the Federal Assembly would pass a law , which the federal government had already approved , legalising four possible ways of winding up the federation : by referendum ; by agreement between the two republics ; by the unilateral secession of one republic ; or by a simple declaration of the Assembly . |
| 10 | On the other hand , dissenters have viewed this emphasis as a way of skating over a suspicion that something was missing and , amidst the cornucopia of riches here , the inclusion of early mono versions of the Berceuse , Barcarolle and Second Sonata from 1946 provide some supporting evidence . |
| 11 | This remains a good way of doing things , and must be the most pain-free way of building up a stock of components . |
| 12 | I should think it is working the way of bringing back the workhouse through having too much economy . ’ |
| 13 | It is also ‘ the best way of filling in the crossword ’ , he added . |
| 14 | There is , of course , a limit to what a court can do by way of filling out a statute , but to some extent this is possible . |
| 15 | Thus , as Neugebauer has succinctly remarked , our present way of dividing up the day into hours , minutes , and seconds ‘ is the result of a Hellenistic modification of an Egyptian practice combined with Babylonian numerical procedures ’ . |
| 16 | There is no way of dividing up the organisation 's work that will simultaneously satisfy all the organisation 's objectives and all its members . |
| 17 | He spoke like a child who 'd found a way of handing over a responsibility to its parents . |
| 18 | He regarded it as a fairly accurate way of weeding out the pretenders from the cream of Europe 's opulent elite . |
| 19 | Often it is another state-owned body which is used to provide the mechanism for making the payment ; this , as we have seen , provides a way of dressing up the deal as being commercially ‘ normal ‘ . |
| 20 | Things were always crystal clear to Beamish ; he was always taking a view or spying out the land or finding some way of pointing out the difference between his world — a universe of sharp corners and exact distances — and the booming , foggy place in which Henry found himself every time he took off his glasses . |
| 21 | Rothstein argues that patron-client relationships are well suited to the peripheral capitalist development that has taken place in Latin America because they are a way of paring down the number of recipients of industrial gains , when these gains are few in number . |
| 22 | Yes , it 's another way of carrying out a procedure most of us prefer never to need , but are realistic enough to know is sometimes inevitable . |
| 23 | The snag is that there may be more than one way of carrying out a task ; the example I gave was measuring a distance by arranging matches end to end , and by using Pythagoras . |
| 24 | The establishment of a locally-based subsidiary company will commonly be regarded by a foreign or multinational holding company as a sensible and effective way of carrying out the business of the latter company ; but the English courts will see it differently . |
| 25 | Not neurotic , that , just a way of parcelling out the time , and doing everything I need to . |
| 26 | A modern patio with a large glazed area is the ideal way of opening up a living room by leading the eye out into the garden . |
| 27 | The government , which controls around 85 per cent of the country , has turned to logging as a way of making up the shortfall in revenue resulting from the end of Soviet aid , and its loss of the Palinn gem mines in western Cambodia to Khmer Rouge forces . |
| 28 | This is a common way of paying off a mortgage — 70 per cent of the Halifax 's borrowers are on a budget plan . |
| 29 | It also serves , appropriately enough , as a way of closing down the aporias which have opened up in Sartre 's text . |
| 30 | Car boot sales are a great way of clearing out the attic , and making a few pounds into the bargain . |